Validation = squat

If it did Google wouldn't be able to claim to have indexed the billions and billions (best Carl Sagan inpersonation attempted) of sites it has as a large percentage of them would get removed for violating the validation rules.

Besides Matt "buying links is bad M-kay" Cutts (best South Park Mr. Mackay impersonation attempted) even posted someplace that Google doesn't consider validation.

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